Tim Curran

Tim Curran
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 345
Boulder, CO USA 80309-0345

tel: (303) 492-5040
fax: (303) 492-2967
Office: Muenzinger D-465C
Email: tim.curran at colorado.edu (remove spaces, substitute @)

Teaching
PSYCHOLOGY 2145: Intro Cognitive Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY 5665: Proseminar on Memory
PSYCHOLOGY 7215: Electrophsyiology of Mind and Brain

Education
B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1988
M.S. from the University of Oregon in 1990
Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1993
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University from 1993 to 1995

Lab Website

Research Interests My research focuses on human learning and memory. I approach these topics from a cognitive neuroscience perspective with the goals of understanding the characteristics of mental processes and how they are realized within the brain. Most of my current research uses measures of brain electrical activity (ERPs) to study the brain processes that underlie recognition memory. In particular, ERPs are being used to dissociate the influences of recollection and familiarity on recognition memory. Other ongoing research, in collaboration with the Perceptual Expertise Network , uses ERPs to investigate the manner in which visual object recognition processes are influenced by expertise.

Publications available online

Here is my Vita in pdf format